Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies

This is a collection of original research on early medieval England with a broad disciplinary cross-section of the field of early English studies. It offers a productive response to debates over how institutional structures work to exclude certain kinds of scholars and scholarship.

Robin Norris is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University. She has published on Beowulf, hagiography, and litanies of saints. Along with Johanna Kramer and Hugh Magennis she co-edited Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 63, Harvard University Press 2020). Rebecca Stephenson is Associate Professor of Old and Middle English at University College Dublin. She researches literature associated with multilingualism and monasticism in early medieval England with particular emphasis on scientific texts and computus. She published The Politics of Language: Byrhtferth, Ælfric, and the Multilingual Identity of the Benedictine Reform (2015) and has co-edited several collections of essays on Old English and Anglo-Latin literature. Renée R. Trilling is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Historical Representation in Old English Verse (Toronto, 2009) and the Oxford Bibliography of Old English Literature and Critical Theory (Oxford, 2016). She is also Editor for Old English of JEGP, published by the University of Illinois Press.